Hmmm. You may be thinking of "The City" by Clifford Simak. It is an excellent, excellent, excellent book!:)
Very rough description of the background: the human race is extinct, a dog civilization in place.
The book consists of 10 legends/myths/fables that dogs have passed on from generation to generation about humans, along with some scholarly arguments and hypotheses by the dog historians (e.g., blurbs along the lines of Professor Fido suggesting that humans never existed, but were the creation of primitive cave dogs, who needed some kiind of a higher power to appeal to; or extensive arguments about whether what humans called a "city" was an abstract concept, a thing, whether it existed, why it did, how it could, etc.). A really great read, I highly recommend it!
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Hmmm. You may be thinking of "The City" by Clifford Simak. It is an excellent, excellent, excellent book! :)
Very rough description of the background: the human race is extinct, a dog civilization in place.
The book consists of 10 legends/myths/fables that dogs have passed on from generation to generation about humans, along with some scholarly arguments and hypotheses by the dog historians (e.g., blurbs along the lines of Professor Fido suggesting that humans never existed, but were the creation of primitive cave dogs, who needed some kiind of a higher power to appeal to; or extensive arguments about whether what humans called a "city" was an abstract concept, a thing, whether it existed, why it did, how it could, etc.). A really great read, I highly recommend it!